Accreting Millisecond Pulsars and Fundamental Physics

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May 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005aas...206.1704s&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society Meeting 206, #17.04; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 37, p.460

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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X-ray emission from the surfaces of rapidly rotating neutron stars encodes information about their global properties as well as physical conditions locally. Detailed modelling of, for example, the energy dependent pulse profiles observed from accreting millisecond pulsars and thermonuclear burst oscillations can be used to derive constraints on the masses and radii of neutron stars. These measurements provide direct information on the properties of the dense matter equation of state of the supranuclear density matter in their interiors. Study of absorption lines created in the surface layers can also provide measurements of masses and radii, and may be able to probe aspects of relativistic gravity, such as frame dragging. I will discuss the results of recent efforts to carry out such measurements and their implications for the properties of dense matter.

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